Election 2022: Democrats Are Going To Win Again

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

You have doggies who can provide kinetic energy with their wagging tails!

[duck dodgers]

I got a Solar Roof to power my electric car.

Y'all are on your own.

Do you have the Tesla solar roof? We're looking at getting one in the spring. Would be interested to get your take.

[Gregg]

Not tesla, its my understanding they are not in practice available outside of California.

I have the Generac inverter and battery system, and more or less generic solar panels. I have a 21 panel array with 370v? panels.

[Foggy]

Very nice!

[Slim Cognito]

Off Topic

I don't know the deets off-hand, but we had solar panels installed a couple of weeks ago. The inspector comes out today. Then we have to wait for the power co. to install the new meter. Hopefully they won't drag their heels on that.

[Luke]

Hey Gregg, Those solar panels equal how many dachshunds power?

Trump's hardcore 'fanatics' are inadvertently sealing a win for swing-state Democrat: Arizona columnist
Brad Reed October 12, 2021

One of the biggest pickup opportunities for Republicans in next year's Senate elections will be in Arizona, where Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) will try to hold on after beating incumbent Martha McSally by less than three percentage points. But according to Arizona Republic columnist Laurie Roberts, former President Donald Trump's hardcore "fanatics" in the state are making Kelly's job much easier by pushing for GOP Senate hopeful and current Attorney General Mark Brnovich to start jailing political opponents based on bogus "voter fraud" claims.

"Never mind that even the auditors acknowledge they found no evidence of fraud, only 'anomalies' for which there may be logical explanations. (There are.)," she writes. "Despite that inconvenient fact, far-right fanatics – hoping to ride the audit into higher office or greater fame or fatter wallets – are putting pressure on Brnovich to start arresting people."

Included among the voices calling for Brnovich to throw Maricopa County officials in jail are gubernatorial hopeful Kari Lake and state Sen. Wendy Rogers. "The arrest-'em-all fanatics don't seem content with mere appetizers thrown their way in the form of a promise to investigate," Roberts writes. "They are demanding generous, juicy slabs of red meat – the bloodier the better. Unfortunately for Brnovich, the blood left on the floor may, in the end, be his own."

Read the whole column here: https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion ... 420495002/

[duck dodgers]

Not tesla, its my understanding they are not in practice available outside of California.

I have the Generac inverter and battery system, and more or less generic solar panels. I have a 21 panel array with 370v? panels.

Tesla solar roof is currently available in OR. Comes with 6 days of battery backup capacity too.

[Gregg]

I didn't ask for Tesla, in fact I specified "anything but Tesla, Generac preferred" when I started looking.

[RTH10260]

Off Topic

With solar panels, be sure to never - as in NEVER - let a shadow drop on your panel field, including bird poop

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now back to electric elections

[Luke]

The solar panels look great, Gregg! When you first wrote, thought it a Regeneron system. Here's what I meant between solar panals and weiner dogs on a tredmill, what's the horsepower for weiner dogs?

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Just wanted to say to friends that have posted about being a Merry Warrior (true), thank you for the encouragment and kindness. Delighted to support nasty GOP splits that are getting more and more vicious between sane Republicans & Trumpers, and between Trumper factions themselves. For example, if you see a Trumper post saying "Not voting in 2022 until 2020 is fixed" encourage them

[Gregg]

I'm voting in every election until all the Trumpers are fixed. So someone take them to a vet.

[Luke]

Oh yes oh yes! This is FABULOUS, make sure this tweet gets around, it's from the Twice Impeached Disgraced Loser himself! They MUST comply.

Liz Harrington @realLizUSA

NEW!

“If we don’t solve the Presidential Election Fraud of 2020 (which we have thoroughly and conclusively documented), Republicans will not be voting in ‘22 or ‘24. It is the single most important thing for Republicans to do.” - President Donald J. Trump

Spiro Agnew’s Ghost @SpiroAgnewGhost
This is what I have been waiting for. He is so deranged, so scared of being indicted and living in such a fantasy world that he is now explicitly and purposefully attempting to destroy the entire Republican party with this statement and its message for his brainless cult members.

Bonus: For despondency, check out this Twitter feed, over 22K tweets just wailing to the clouds: https://twitter.com/TakouiS/with_replies

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[Luke]

Catturd loves his projection. Wanted to make sure he knew that's what it is.





More on Trumpers not voting, funny story from Phil.

Marjorie Taylor Greene fans pushing buttons on their phones is not a reliable polling mechanism
By Philip Bump National correspondent Today at 10:24 a.m. EDT

It started with Cat Turd.

In the turbulent media ecosystem that swirls around former president Donald Trump, a pseudonymous Twitter user with that unpleasant appellation is something of a star. (He tweets as “catturd2”; it’s unclear what fate befell “catturd1.”) His combination of anti-establishment hostility and crowd-specific witticisms earned him multiple retweets from Trump back when that was possible and allowed him to carve out a small pocket of influence in MAGA world.

So, on an episode of his podcast last month, he welcomed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who shared with the world important new research on Republican responses to voter fraud.

But first, a little housekeeping.

“I don’t even know if I’m saying it right? Cat Turd?” she asked. “Is that right?”

It was, he assured her.

After about 30 minutes of precisely the sort of conversation that you’d expect, Mr. Turd asked Greene how, in future elections, Republicans could “beat the machines” — that is, voting machines that he and Greene incorrectly think somehow illegally influenced the 2020 election. Greene then explained a recent survey that showed exactly how fraught the Republican base’s concerns about election fraud were.

That research eventually trickled up to the New York Times, which reported on it Sunday.

Greene “has told colleagues that she was surprised by a recent survey of Republican voters in her district, according to one person who spoke with her about it,” Jeremy Peters reported. “The informal internal survey found that roughly 10 percent of Republican voters expressed a serious lack of confidence in the security of Georgia’s elections, with 4 percent saying they did not think elections were secure in Georgia and would not vote in future elections, and 6 percent saying they were unsure whether their votes would be counted.”

“The possibility that roughly 10 percent of Republicans would sit out any election,” he continued, “or question whether their votes would be accurately counted — even in a solidly red district like the one held by Ms. Taylor Greene — was something Republican strategists said they found alarming.”

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The utility in Greene’s survey is not the numbers. It is to serve as a reminder that Trump brought a pool of voters to national elections who may not stick around. His own threats that Republicans will sit out 2022 or 2024 if “fraud” isn’t addressed leverage the fact that he has not shown any ability to turn out his most hardcore base for elections in which he is not on the ballot, the central question for Trump’s influence in the party moving forward. The Greene-Trump universe of voters is probably disproportionately unlikely to have voted in 2012 or 2014 and probably disproportionately likely not to be inspired to vote in 2022 or 2024 anyway, false fraud claims notwithstanding.

This is simply an educated guess, however. In order to validate this assumption with all of the statistical accuracy of Greene’s town hall survey, please offer your thoughts in the comments.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... p_politics

[Luke]

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

Stacy Abrams wants to help Foggy!

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/opensenateseatfund

These two open seat elections will play a major part in holding the Senate.

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[Foggy]

I'm probably beyond help, but let's see if she can do what the NCDP can't.

[Gregg]

Ahem....

[Luke]

Still confident! Just in -- Americans (not Twitter Trumpers who are trolls and bots) are seeing and feeling this.

Thank you @POTUS! Weekly jobless claims fall to lowest level since 1969. 5.6 million new jobs created in Biden’s first 9 months, record pace for a new president. Unemployment down to 4.6% from 10%. Wages increased at fastest rate in more than 2 decades.

49 mins ago - Economy & Business
Weekly jobless claims fall to lowest level since 1969
Oriana Gonzalez

Approximately 199,000 Americans filed initial claims for unemployment insurance‌ last‌ week, a 71,000 decrease from the week before.

Why it matters: The Labor Department said Wednesday it was the lowest level of initial claims since Nov. 15, 1969, when claims reached 197,000.

This same time last year, unemployment claims were around 700,000, per the Labor Department.
Our thought bubble, via Axios' Felix Salmon: Employers are so desperate for employees that layoffs are all but nonexistent. While America still has very little in the way of long-term job security, it currently offers unprecedented levels of short-term job security.

https://www.axios.com/weekly-jobless-cl ... 3c548.html

[SuzieC]

And yet the NYTimes, CNN, and the WaPo are all spreading doom porn about the economy. Why do they want Americans to believe that the economy is cratering? Never mind, I'm going to re-read this entire thread as a treat to myself on Thanksgiving Day. Happy Thanksgiving all!!

[Slim Cognito]

Srsly! Every store I've been in has fully stocked shelves, prices aren't that bad, especially if you're vigilant. Sure, gas is up, but the biggest travel holiday of the year is tomorrow.

Sheesh! It's like we've never pulled out of a recession before, not to mention what a bad recession it was because of the pandemic. People stayed home, stop shopping outside of necessities, then, WHAM!, it's all open and people want stuff...NOW DAMMIT! Low supply vs high demand equals higher prices. It's not rocket science.

Also flying under the MSM radar is the freighter ship log jam is easing. Of course, they still need truck drivers...

I need to research to find out if anyone floating off the coast of Cali decided to make the 2+ week journey thru the Panama Canal (if their ship would even fit) to unload in Tampa. I saw a guy on Youtube, and no, I can't vouch for his expertise, but I'll tell you what he said and you guys can correct me.

He said, if your ship would fit thru the canal, it would take 8 days to get to Tampa, 8 days to get back, plus whatever time it took to unload and take on any empty containers. I don't remember his estimated cost, but it was about $1M more than sitting anchored offshore at Long Beach, plus the ships that stayed put were getting back out in 7-10 days, vs 16-18 to make the journey to Florida.

Is there a supply chain thread? Maybe I should move my rant there? I can't keep up anymore.

[Luke]

GOP on Trumper Action! They are so going to blow the midterms. "Your [sic] out of your league"... such an illiterate minx.

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Mace fires back at Greene: 'Bat---- crazy'
BY JOSEPH CHOI - 11/30/21 03:32 PM EST

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) shot back at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Tuesday after Greene called her "trash," responding by using emojis to call her fellow first-term Republican congresswoman "batshit crazy." Mace was responding to Green's Tuesday morning tweet that accused her of being a "RINO," or Republican in name only, after Mace condemned Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) for making anti-Muslim remarks about Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). Mace "is the trash in the GOP Conference," Greene tweeted. "Never attacked by Democrats or RINO’s (same thing) because she is not conservative, she’s pro-abort. Mace you can back up off of @laurenboebert or just go hang with your real gal pals, the Jihad Squad. Your out of your league."

While appearing on CNN, Mace had commented on the ongoing feud between Boebert and Omar that was sparked after Boebert joked about Omar, who is Muslim, being a terrorist. Mace denounced the incident as an example of "racist tropes and remarks" that have been made on both sides of the aisle. About one hour after Greene posted her criticism, Mace retweeted her and wrote Greene's words were an example of "batshit crazy," replacing her words with the bat, poop and clown emoji.

This is what looks like. https://t.co/nIbqjiJaFH
— Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) November 30, 2021

Mace further defended herself from Greene's accusations of not being conservative enough, writing that she is "a pro-life fiscal conservative who was attacked by the Left all weekend." She went on to point out that Greene's accusations of her being "pro-abort" appear to stem from her support for abortion ban exceptions for rape and incest. Mace is a rape survivor herself and wrote she was "beyond disgusted" that Greene appeared to be using this information to attack a fellow Republican lawmaker. Greene later tweeted on Tuesday that she had spoken about Mace with former President Trump.

Mace responded by writing "I like my freshman colleagues who don’t think 9/11 was a hoax" and using the peanut emoji to describe Greene. She went on to describe Greene's phone call with Trump as her running to "tattletale" because she "can’t stand on her own two feet."

I like my freshman colleagues who don’t think 9/11 was a hoax…
This one on the other hand… totally ! https://t.co/em1hBB5DXF
— Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) November 30, 2021

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5836 ... -bat-crazy

[Luke]

House Republicans are so right. They should keep setting the party on fire!

House Republicans seethe over Senate GOP's debt deal
Mitch McConnell's deal on the debt ceiling is just the latest example of the Senate GOP working with Democrats, to the scorn of House Republicans.
After Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell cut a deal with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, tensions are boiling over between the wings of the Republican Party.
By BURGESS EVERETT and OLIVIA BEAVERS 12/07/2021 07:07 PM EST

House Republicans are questioning Senate Republicans’ decision-making at every turn, a rift that's fueling an intraparty fight over the debt ceiling. First it was President Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill, then it was last week’s stopgap government funding deal that divided the two GOP conferences. And after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell cut a deal with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to ease Democrats’ ability to raise the debt ceiling, tensions are boiling over between the wings of the Republican Party. In fact, House GOP leaders said the deal is so toxic they may not need to twist arms to get their members to vote against it. “I would like to think this is bad enough so we don’t need to whip it,” said Chief Deputy Whip Drew Ferguson (R-Ga.).

Senate Republicans say this is the best deal they could get, forcing Democrats to raise the debt ceiling on their own and to name a specific number, as high as $2 trillion, rather than suspend the debt ceiling for a certain time period, such as through the election. Given the Senate’s filibuster threshold, Senate Republicans say they simply have a different responsibility than their House colleagues, who can often vote against whatever they want in the minority with little consequence. “It’s an easy vote just to vote no,” said Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.). “There’s nobody back home that thinks you should cooperate, in red states, with Democrats at all. I personally think we have a responsibility for those things we’ve agreed on with the operation of government … that’s not a very popular position to take back home.”

The split between Senate and House Republicans boils down to two key factors: former President Donald Trump and parliamentary rules. The gerrymandered House makes those lawmakers far leerier of primary challenges, which makes bucking Trump the biggest risk to many House Republicans’ careers. And Trump hates every deal McConnell cuts, from infrastructure to spending to the debt ceiling. What’s more, Senate Democrats need Republicans’ help. At least 10 Republicans will have to support a bill that changes the forthcoming debt ceiling vote requirements to a simple majority in the Senate. House Democrats don’t need the same assist, allowing House Republicans to breathe fire all over their upper chamber counterparts.

“We're strongly against this process where they can just pass a bill with a majority vote in the Senate based on a rule change in the House. That's even more concerning,” Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) said in an interview. “It would be a new precedent to say in a rule in legislation in the House you can set up a 50-vote bill in the Senate. That's never been done before. It's dangerous.” Nonetheless, both parties have supported fast-track exceptions to filibuster rules over the years. And Senate GOP leaders are willing to provide the votes to at least advance the new procedure that will allow a filibuster-free debt ceiling vote later this month because it will take the issue off the table for a year and allow them to focus on Democrats’ forthcoming spending bill.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/0 ... eal-523912

Let America fail to own the libs, that's the RQP ticket. Independents love that.

[Luke]

Relentlessly optimistic!

1.

8 hours ago - Economy & Business
JPMorgan: "Full global recovery" in 2022

JPMorgan Chase Global Research says in a forecast to clients: "2022 will be the year of a full global recovery, an end of the global pandemic, and a return to normal conditions we had prior to the COVID-19 outbreak."

The big picture: The bullish report sees "a return of global mobility, and a release of pent-up demand from consumers (e.g. travel, services)."

What they're saying: Marko Kolanovic, chief global markets strategist and co-head of Global Research, says that forecast "is warranted by achieving broad population immunity and with the help of human ingenuity, such as new therapeutics expected to be broadly available in 2022."

"We believe this will produce a strong cyclical recovery, a return of global mobility, and strong growth in consumer and corporate spending, within the backdrop of still-easy monetary policy," he added.

https://www.axios.com/jpmorgan-full-glo ... 1aa85.html

2.

7 hours ago - Politics & Policy
First look: Anita Dunn advises Dems on economy message for '22
Mike Allen, author of AM

In a midterm preview, top Democratic strategist Anita Dunn advises the party's House and Senate members to frame Republicans "as being against the economic interests of working Americans."

What she's saying: "Explicitly framing Republicans as opposing policies to lower costs does better than simply framing Republicans as the 'party of no,'" Dunn, White House senior adviser until August, writes in the memo.

As a message for Democrats when polls show inflation as a rising concern, Dunn writes: "Republican opposition to Democrats’ popular plans to lower the cost of living is a vulnerability for their party."
"Much attention has been paid to Republican attacks on inflation, but private polling data has consistently shown the popularity of the President and Democrats’ economic agenda, especially when it comes to lowering costs."
Dunn said that in a recent test of 13 criticisms of Republicans, the best-testing message was Republicans "opposed to plans that will lower costs for working families."

"This reflects the importance of costs and inflation right now, as we see reflected in many other data sets," she said.
The other side: Republicans see inflation as a top vulnerability for President Biden.

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy said this week: "Republicans across the country are continuing to put pressure on the Biden administration to hold them accountable for this skyrocketing inflation."

https://www.axios.com/anita-dunn-democr ... e2466.html

Please read this, it's the FULL MEMO: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents ... g-messages

3.

1 HOUR AGO

Here is the list of the 14 GOP senators who backed Mitch McConnell's negotiated plan to avoid a debt disaster.
Democrats will still address the debt limit on a party-line vote later.

What happened: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell got 14 Republican senators to grant a one-time loophole to the debt ceiling's filibuster threshold of 60 votes.

To be clear: These Republicans are not voting to lift the nation's borrowing limit, but granting Democrats the power to do it on their own.

Here are the Republicans who went along with this approach:

McConnell
Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.)
Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.)
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.)
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.)
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine)
Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.)
Sen. Thom Tillis (N.C.)
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska)
Sen. Richard Burr (N.C.)
Sen. Joni Ernst (Iowa)
Sen. John Cornyn (Texas)
Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah)
Sen. Rob Portman (Ohio)

Reminder: 11 Republicans backed the last debt limit action in October. Just two of those who supported that last bid — Sens. Richard Shelby (Ala.) and Mike Rounds (S.D.) — voted no this go around. But McConnell found more than enough votes to compensate for those defections.

Why this matters: The final vote is not yet locked in, but the path to avoid a mid-December fiscal calamity is clear. This seemed almost unimaginable just weeks ago.

4.

Mitch McConnell's 2022 agenda? Do nothing.
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
Updated 6:33 PM ET, Fri December 3, 2021

(CNN)Give Mitch McConnell this: He is remarkably transparent about his political aims.

Take the Senate minority leader's strategy on building a set of policies on which Republicans can run in 2022. That strategy? He's not doing it.

"Mitch McConnell has told colleagues and donors Senate Republicans won't release a legislative agenda before next year's midterms, according to people who've attended private meetings with the minority leader," reported Axios on Thursday.

The piece went on to note that "McConnell has long held the view that putting out an agenda ahead of midterm elections is a mistake — at least for Senate Republicans."

McConnell's theory of the case is simple: Midterm elections when your party is out of power in Congress and the White House should be solely a referendum on what the other side has done for the last two years.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/03/politics ... index.html

The GQP, mired in hate, irrelevance, wanting America to fail, and only focused on the lowest, nastiness, most ignorant part of their bases, is going to #FAIL in the 2022 Midterms. They've had a year to propose solutions on childcare, healthcare, and other important issues and they have #FAILED. Now Moscow Mitch says they won't even have a platform for 2022 except Democrats Bad.

[Jim]

Now Moscow Mitch says they won't even have a platform for 2022 except Democrats Bad.

Not to worry, Trump will set them up with his own platform. Not like any of them have the balls to stand up to Trump.

[Jim]

Ugh

Dave Wasserman
@Redistrict
By our estimate, neutral/commission maps in the blue states of CA, CO, NJ, VA and WA (93 seats total) will end up costing Dems 10-15 House seats they could have seized by gerrymandering, making Republicans even stronger favorites for House control.